Maximus and Vanilla, twin brother and sister, rescue the horse Ploydox from slaughter, escaping with it, and then sign up for a chariot race.
KEY: jP = Picture Books; jZ = 1st and 2nd Grade Readers; jE = 3rd and 4th Grade Readers; JF = 5th Grade and Up
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Gerrard, Roy | THE ROMAN TWINS Maximus and Vanilla, twin brother and sister, rescue the horse Ploydox from slaughter, escaping with it, and then sign up for a chariot race. |
1988 | 32 p. |
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Macaulay, David | ROME ANTICS A pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour which includes both ancient and modern parts of the city of Rome. |
1997 | 79 p. |
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Banks, Lynne Reid | TIGER, TIGER Two tiger cub brothers are taken from the jungle to ancient Rome, where one becomes the pampered pet of Caesar's daughter and the other becomes a man-eating "entertainment act" at the Colosseum. |
2005 | 195 p. |
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Deneberg, Barry | ATTICUS OF ROME Acclaimed author Barry Denenberg brings to life the intrigue of Roman politics and the bloody violence of the gladiator games in this gripping story about ancient Rome. Atticus is a young boy who has been torn from his family and home. |
2004 | 166 p. |
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Estes, Eleanor | MIRANDA THE GREAT |
1967 | 79 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE THIEVES OF OSTIA The Roman Mysteries, Book 1 In Rome, in the year 79 A.D., a group of children from very different backgrounds work together to discover who beheaded a pet dog - and why. |
2002 | 152 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE SECRETS OF VESUVIUS The Roman Mysteries, Book 2 Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster. |
2001 | 165 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE PIRATES OF POMPEII The Roman Mysteries, Book 3 At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very poweful citizen might be involved. |
2003 | 161 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE ASSASSINS OF ROME The Roman Mysteries, Book 4 Flavia and Nubia follow Jonathan to Rome and into the golden House built by the emperor Nero, where a dangerous assassin lurks. |
2002 | 152 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE DOLPHINS OF LAURENTUM The Roman Mysteries, Book 5 It's October AD 79. The arrival of a ragged man at the Geminus household sets in motion a series of events which take Flavia and her three friends to an opulent villa by the sea at Laurentum, a few miles south of Ostia. Just off the coast is a sunken wreck full of treasure which could be the answer to all their problems. But someone else is after the treasure, too. As the four children try to recover it, they solve the terrible mystery of Lupus's past. |
2003 | 161 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE TWELVE TASKS OF FLAVIA GEMINA The Roman Mysteries, Book 6 It is December AD 79. In the Roman port of Ostia braziers are lit, hot spiced wine is brewed and soft fur covers are brought out from cedarwood storage chests. It's the season of Saturnalia, a pagan festival where anything can happen. When a Roman widow begins to show a keen interest in Captain Geminus, his daughter Flavia and her friends have to find out if she really loves him or is just after his money. To do that, Flavia has to undertake the twelve labours of Hercules. And there is a lion on the loose! |
2004 | 216 p. |
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Lawrence, Caroline | THE ENEMIES OF JUPITER The Roman Mysteries, Book 7 February, AD 80. An imperial messenger summons Jonathan's father to Rome, where the fever which started in Ostia is now threatening to become a plague. Jonathan and his three friends go, too, and need to use all their skills to solve a dangerous mystery for the Emperor Titus. |
2004 | 171 p. |
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Ray, Mary | THE IDES OF APRIL The Roman Empire Sequence In Rome, in 62 A.D., 17-year-old Hylas must find a way to save himself, his mother, and the household slaves from imprisonment and imminent death when their master, a prominent senator, is found murdered. |
1999 | 165 p. |
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Spears, Elizabeth George | THE BRONZE BOW When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love might be a more powerful weapon than hate. 30 A.D. |
1989 | 254 p. |
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Sutcliff, Rosemary | FRONTIER WOLF As punishment for his poor judgment, a young inexperienced Roman army officer is sent to Northern England to assume the command of a motley group known as the Frontier Wolves. |
1996 | 196 p. |
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Sutcliff, Rosemary | THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command. Roman period, 55 B.C. - 449 A.D. |
1954 | 291 p. |
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Sutcliff, Rosemary | THE SILVER BRANCH A young Roman army medical officer, sent to Britain during the period of waning Roman rule, befriends a kinsman with whom he shares an adventure of intrigue, exile, and underground activity with the Lost Ninth Legion. Roman period, 55 B.C. - 449 A.D. |
1957 | 231 p. |
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Winterfeld, Henry | DETECTIVES IN TOGAS In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall. |
1956 | 249 p. |
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Winterfeld, Henry | MYSTERY OF THE ROMAN RANSOM The purchase of a slave for their teacher leads a group of schoolboys in ancient Rome into a dangerous intrigue. |
2002 | 217 p. |
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Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn | FOUR HORSES FOR TISHTRY Tishtry's wish to buy her family's freedom from slavery in the Roman Empire inspires her to perform dangerous feats of stunt riding. | 1985 | 214 p. |